Here is the order denying Alltel’s motion for a TRO to shut down a tribal court proceeding brought by the Oglala Sioux Tribe: Alltel Communications v Oglala Sioux Tribe.
The court wrote:
That under the guidance of Lien and Gaming World, the court recognizes comity and honors the right of the Oglala Sioux Tribal Court, in the first instance, to determine whether it has jurisdiction to consider the defendant tribe’s petition for preliminary injunction in tribal court action Civ. # 09-0673.
This case is Lower Sioux Indian Community v. Kraus-Anderson Const. Co. (Minn. App.). Here is the unpublished opinion.
An exceprt:
Because Lower Sioux is not a necessary party to this litigation, we reverse the district court’s order joining Lower Sioux as a party and enjoining it from pursuing parallel tribal court litigation.The determination that Lower Sioux is not a necessary party is dispositive. Thus, we need not reach and do not reach the parties’ dispute over whether Lower Sioux waived its sovereign immunity, either contractually or by initiating the district court action. Nor do we take any position on the jurisdiction of the tribal court over the subcontractor respondents or whether the subcontractors may be joined as parties to the tribal court proceedings. Those determinations are for the tribal court. See Klammer v. Lower Sioux Convenience Store, 535 N.W.2d 379, 381 (Minn.App.1995) (explaining that comity requires allowing tribal court to determine its own jurisdiction); Rule 12(c) of the Lower Sioux Community in the State of Minnesota Judicial Code Rules of Civil Procedure, available at http://maiba.org/pdf/LowerSioux.pdf (addressing standard for joinder in tribal court). We also deny as moot Kraus-Anderson’s motions to modify the record and to strike portions of one respondent’s brief because the disputes raised by the motions are relevant only to the issues that we have declined to reach.
The case is Morigeau v. Gorman and here are the materials:
Here is the opinion: Garvais v US
An excerpt:
The ultimate Finding of Fact in this matter is that the BIA maliciously caused the institution and continuation of unfounded criminal proceedings against Duane Garvais in Spokane Tribal Court in retaliation for the proper performance of his duties in investigating thefts by BIA patrol officers with close connections to the Tribe. As stated, those charges were ultimately dismissed pursuant to the finding of this court that the Spokane Tribal Court did not have jurisdiction over Mr. Garvais.
The court finds that Mr. Garvais and his family suffered substantial emotional distress and turmoil as the result of the wrongful action of the BIA at the behest of and in association with the Spokane Tribal Council and its agents and employees. This emotional distress continued over a period of years, including Mr. Garvais having to seek habeas corpus relief in this court. The court finds that just compensation to Mr. Garvais is in the amount of $ 400,000 plus the sum of $ 13,102.66 billed by Mr. Weatherhead’s law firm Witherspoon, Davenport, & Toole.
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Crowe & Dunlevy, P.C. v. Stidham, Appellant
Lower court order is here.
Here are the materials from the District court in Montana:
From ICT:
PLUMMER, Idaho – David Lee Harding was widely known throughout Indian country, having served for 29 years in tribal courts in Idaho, Washington, Oregon, California and Alaska. He passed away Dec. 8, 2009 while playing in a father/son basketball game with his sons and numerous friends. He was 57 years old.
David was a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa in North Dakota but grew up in the Willamette Valley of Oregon with two brothers and a sister. He was a fan of Paul Revere and the Raiders and started his own rock band in his early years. This led to working as a radio announcer and in later years to announcing at boxing matches at the Coeur d’Alene Casino as well as basketball games in Plummer and Spokane and he was a backup announcer for the Spokane Indians professional baseball team.
Former Coeur d’Alene Tribal Attorney Ray Givens tells of a night at the boxing matches when David was announcing. “One night I took my son, who was about 8 at the time, to a boxing match at the Coeur d’Alene Tribe’s Casino. We bought some 50/50 tickets as we went in, and I gave the stubs to Joe. Dave Harding was the ring announcer that night, and when the ring girl drew the ticket, we won. The scantily clad lady came down to where we were sitting and escorted Joe up to the ring. He was terrified. Dave smiled, looked down at me, and said over the mike, ‘Ray, under the tribe’s law, which you probably wrote, a minor can’t gamble here and 50/50 is gambling.’ Everyone, including me, had a good laugh at my expense. I went up to the ring, rescued my son and collected the prize from a still laughing Dave. His grace and humor was much appreciated.”
David graduated from the University of Oregon in 1975 where he was president of the Native American Student Union. He attended the University of Oregon School of Law, and later a summer session at the University of New Mexico School of Law and later yet attended the University of Idaho School of Law. Continue reading
From local news:
In banishing Christopher Pearson, the former tribal official facing sentencing on federal wire-fraud charges, the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Elders Council meted out an ancient form of punishment employed by Indian tribes across the country.
Within weeks of his Nov. 19 conviction in U.S. District Court in Hartford, Pearson was ordered off the Mashantucket reservation, where he owns a home, and to surrender his tribal badge, having “forfeited all rights and privileges of Tribal membership with the exception of services provided by Tribal Health Services.”
The elders council also directed the tribe’s finance department to cut off Pearson’s monthly “incentive” payments — the distributions of Foxwoods Resort Casino revenue that all tribal members in good standing receive.
While the tribe would provide no information about banishments, it’s believed that their frequency has increased since the tribe’s constitution and by-laws granted the elders council “the authority and responsibility” to impose them.
Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Council resolutions show that 12 people were banished by the tribal council prior to the establishment of the elders council in 1996. Currently, several people are banished each year, maybe more, according to Thomas Weissmuller, chief judge of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Court. Continue reading
This one is called Bustamante v. Valenzuela, and will be decided by a different judge than the Miranda case. Here are the materials:
PYT Motion for Summary Judgment
Here are the materials in Keim v. Harrah’s Operating Co. (S.D. Cal.):
Turtle Talk 
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